Archive for August, 2006
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Thursday, August 31st, 2006Among North American newspapers, the New York Times has been on the leading-edge when it comes to the Web. I was invited to try the new My Times service (it's in beta), which lets you personalize a news “portal” with NYT content, external news sources and blogs. My initial impression is it's ”good, quite good” because it combines the NYT's [...]
AOL's Shutting Down TotalTalk
Thursday, August 31st, 2006Just in time for the VON conference in Boston (which has shifted its focus to video from voice), AOL's foray into the VoIP market is coming to an abrupt close in North America. According to Aswath, TotalTalk will be “terminated” on or about Nov. 30 in the U.S. In Canada, an AOL Canada spokesperson said [...]
Wireless Camping Recap
Thursday, August 31st, 2006Now that I've recovered from my recent camping “experience” at Sandbanks Provincial Park, here's wireless re-cap. For access, I used Bell Canada's Passport service (based on a Kyocera card), which was pretty good - certainly not blazing fast but it offered decent connectivity over Bell's 1xEV-DO network. I also blogged on a Blackberry 7250, which was fine although doing it by e-mail to [...]
Another Journo Flies the Coop
Thursday, August 31st, 2006The number of journalists spreading their wings to run their own Web start-ups continues to expand with news that SiliconBeat's Matt Marshall is leaving to start VentureBeat, which will focus on private companies and their investors. Matt joins journalists such as Om Malik, who have made the jump after enjoying considerable blogging success. Maybe this is another sign [...]
Better Newspaper Web Sites
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006As an “ink-stained [newspaper] wretch” and Internet disciple, I'm fascinated by the struggles many newspapers are having embracing/adopting the Web. There are business issues (subscriptions vs. free content), access challenges (everything available vs. select content), advertising (cannibalize the lucrative classified business vs. let Craigslist eat your lunch) and content creation (blogs? podcasts? videocasts?). The Biving Report (hat [...]
Rant o' the Day: Bluetooth Earpieces
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006Here's the deal: I'm a quasi-geek at heart but I'm not a fan of Bluetooth earpieces. Over the past couple of days, I've seen a couple guys walking around with them. While I'm sure they're convenient and work well, they do not look cool at all. In fact, they say “loser” (gosh, that's harsh, isn't [...]
Much Ado About Schmidt?
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006So Google CEO Eric Schmidt has joined Apple's board of directors. Count on the blogosphere to put two and two together to five…or six or seven. Does this portend an Apple-Google mega-merger? Will Google provide iTunes with even more momentum to sell millions of those white earphones…er, I mean iPods? People have to remember Silicon [...]
Hey, I'm #10!
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006Well, here's a pleasant late-summer surprise: I'm one of 30 people named to Garrett Smith's list of VOIP bloggers - joining pals such as Om Malik, Alec Saunders and Andy Abramson (aka #1). While flattered, I'm secretly hoping to make another VoIP list this year (video) by posting on YouTube's every move…:) Thanks for the compliment, Garrett.
Where are Canadian Corporate Blogs?
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006I've almost finished reading Naked Conversations, which is part of my summer reading series (The Long Tail, The Golden Spruce). Although I share Robert Scoble and Shel Israel's ardent enthusiasm for blogging, Naked Conversations comes across as almost too evangelistic. They believe blogs are/will be an essential marketing/communications tool that few companies should be without. They [...]
Next Up: Google Browser?
Monday, August 28th, 2006Sorry, one more G-Thought. Now that Google Apps is out in the wild, the inevitable question is when Google will launch a browser. I mean, it can't hide behind Firefox forever, right?
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